when i was little, on christmas eve i would never want to sleep, so my dad told me i had better or santa would "skip the house." i thought this meant he would stand right in the center hall and skip, really hard so the house would fly up and land sideways! i was so scared.
A childhood belief about father christmas
others believed things like this
- I thought the song Skip To My Lou was about skipping to the toilet.Anon
- I used to believe that at Christmas if your house never had a chimney then santa came through your letter box— Rhys James
- I was told that for every christmas carol i sang before christmas time santa would give me one less present!— K
- When I was littler I thought that Santa had a magical key that could let him get inot everybody's house— Eric "The Santa Jr. Looking guy"
- I used to believe that santa had a spare key to our house because we had no chimney.— Karl Andrade (Bombay, India)
- I used to believe that when you moved house you swapped house with the person moving into your old house.Anon